Open Serendipity

I have way, way too many ideas for any one person to attempt to implement. So I take genuine pleasure when someone else implements one of my ideas. First of all it is gratifying to have my (brilliant!) idea validated via independent discovery: someone else had the same idea! And second, it is nice when [...]

After talking with a client at length about how someone had mishandled some data, she asked me if “munge” is a real word or just something I made up? I was taken aback – I thought it was a real word!  I looked it up in the dictionary and it was not there.  I apologized [...]